What does ‘eleven’ bring to your mind? Team sports (soccer, cricket, American football)? The cycle of sunspots from the sun? Jupiter’s moons? Ocean’s Eleven? The twelve apostles (minus Judas)? For the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA), eleven has its own meaning.
Suddenly I am at the halfway mark of my three-month stay here in Cambodia. There are many things I could share and focus on—the smiles of the students at the Rainbow Hostel in Phnom Penh; the life education and ‘daily bread’ projects at Phum Krus Life Centre, that are helping to serve the village; the […]
Cambodia; a country busy with life, learning and doing; a country getting on and looking forward, encouraging tourism; a country openly presenting its history, good and bad; a country proudly posting road signs stating ‘no child labour used in Cambodia’; a country allowing peaceful protests speaking out against the government; a country holding democratic elections; […]
Walking up Archer Street in North Adelaide, Mr. Jayasingh Rajiah said with sincere enthusiasm, ‘this ALC scholarship is a miracle for me’. This is a surprise – a man, who is a miracle to so many others, finds a miracle here in Adelaide! You see, for 21 years, Jayasingh drove his car to Bethany Home […]
‘This group are going to give us the help we need at Home of Grace?’ It was a query of doubt rather than a question of disbelief, made by one of the workers from Home of Grace, a home where pregnant unwed mothers go for support. The mission team (MT2014) joined the local church near […]
Which fruit to buy at the local market will be a minor choice compared to the major decision that Hanna Schulz has to make in these next months. As a member of Lutheran Bible Translators Australia (LBTA) Hanna is currently living and working in Ukarumpa, the headquarters of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), Papua […]
New and exciting mission and ministry challenges lie ahead for Pastor Simon Mackenzie who has returned to Australia in October 2013 together with his wife Oiy and son after serving as the LCA missionary with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thailand (ELCT) since 2005. Simon is now preparing to begin ministry together with Pastor Mark […]
I arrived in Cambodia, with my wife Sybil, on the 23 Nov 2013 for our second medical mission trip with Lutheran World Mission. We travelled by bus to Kampong Chhnang where we met the medical and dental teams from Singapore and Hong Kong.
Immanuel College, Novar Gardens in South Australia, has had a partnership with Bethany Home in Malaysia for over eight years now. This partnership has been, and continues to be, a vital part of our mission and ministry.
Serves 4 Ingredients Paste 8 chicken thighs, bone in 2 tsp turmeric 2 tsp curry powder ¾ tsp salt Water Cooking oil for frying 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 3 cm ginger, finely grated 1 tsp curry powder 1 tsp chilli paste 6 tblsp tomato sauce 2 tblsp palm sugar syrup (honey or sugar syrup) […]